<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20648582</id><updated>2012-01-11T18:08:18.287-05:00</updated><category term='Texas'/><category term='row lights'/><category term='Bokeh'/><category term='Eyes'/><category term='Snow'/><category term='reindeer'/><category term='Plano'/><category term='New York City'/><category term='Frost'/><category term='Glassy sheets of white'/><category term='Photography'/><category term='Colorama'/><category term='Spring'/><category term='Fluffy'/><category term='White blankets'/><category term='Ice'/><title type='text'>A small nudge of the finger...</title><subtitle type='html'>What I saw, liked, and later made my camera see!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20648582/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Kavita Rao</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/112462064518364960023</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-w-cCx76SzxU/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAJe0/RVO3T0EdW1k/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20648582.post-7279042067813942335</id><published>2012-01-11T09:41:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T11:37:59.465-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reindeer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='row lights'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bokeh'/><title type='text'>Prancing to glory</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;He looked up&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;to the colors bursting&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;in the inky night sky&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;He said to them,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Pull me towards you,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;and I'll ride you&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;around the Earth that lives"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ElaIkphcFF0/Tw2kt7LIEUI/AAAAAAAAKOs/zEiIWisu15I/s1600/photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="270" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ElaIkphcFF0/Tw2kt7LIEUI/AAAAAAAAKOs/zEiIWisu15I/s400/photo.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;[For trying out Bokeh, I was inspired by my clicktastic friend Sonam Mandal]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20648582-7279042067813942335?l=kavstrokes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/feeds/7279042067813942335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/2012/01/prancing-to-glory.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20648582/posts/default/7279042067813942335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20648582/posts/default/7279042067813942335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/2012/01/prancing-to-glory.html' title='Prancing to glory'/><author><name>Kavita Rao</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/112462064518364960023</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-w-cCx76SzxU/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAJe0/RVO3T0EdW1k/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ElaIkphcFF0/Tw2kt7LIEUI/AAAAAAAAKOs/zEiIWisu15I/s72-c/photo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20648582.post-7208120554053616639</id><published>2011-05-10T00:38:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-09T14:22:19.626-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Frost'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Glassy sheets of white'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='White blankets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Snow'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Plano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fluffy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Texas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York City'/><title type='text'>Settled in...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Floating fluff balls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Making sweet frost calls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Blanketing one and all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;With their frozen fall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;I love Winter!! The beauty in its whiteness never ceases to amaze me... So I thought it would be a good idea to show you why I love it so!! These pictures are mostly taken from my apartment in New York. But in addition to those, I have also put up pictures I shot when I was living in Dallas... oh yes.. we certainly had our share of winter in lovely Texas as well!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;I hope you enjoy and marvel at these sights ... through my eyes... umm...okay, through my lens! :-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="500" height="375"&gt; &lt;param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fkavsrao%2Fsets%2F72157627507308301%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fkavsrao%2Fsets%2F72157627507308301%2F&amp;set_id=72157627507308301&amp;jump_to="&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=104087"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=104087" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fkavsrao%2Fsets%2F72157627507308301%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fkavsrao%2Fsets%2F72157627507308301%2F&amp;set_id=72157627507308301&amp;jump_to=" width="500" height="375"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20648582-7208120554053616639?l=kavstrokes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/feeds/7208120554053616639/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/2011/05/settled-in.html#comment-form' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20648582/posts/default/7208120554053616639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20648582/posts/default/7208120554053616639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/2011/05/settled-in.html' title='Settled in...'/><author><name>Kavita Rao</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/112462064518364960023</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-w-cCx76SzxU/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAJe0/RVO3T0EdW1k/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20648582.post-732416826095616543</id><published>2011-05-06T18:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-09T14:20:49.371-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Colorama'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New York City'/><title type='text'>Shying blossoms...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;A walk in the City in Spring is bound to open up your eyes... to the wonder of colors... of blooms... of LIFE!!! So take that walk here, and enjoy...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="500" height="375"&gt; &lt;param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fkavsrao%2Fsets%2F72157627631913134%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fkavsrao%2Fsets%2F72157627631913134%2F&amp;set_id=72157627631913134&amp;jump_to="&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=104087"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=104087" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fkavsrao%2Fsets%2F72157627631913134%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fkavsrao%2Fsets%2F72157627631913134%2F&amp;set_id=72157627631913134&amp;jump_to=" width="500" height="375"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20648582-732416826095616543?l=kavstrokes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/feeds/732416826095616543/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/2011/05/shying-blossoms.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20648582/posts/default/732416826095616543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20648582/posts/default/732416826095616543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/2011/05/shying-blossoms.html' title='Shying blossoms...'/><author><name>Kavita Rao</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/112462064518364960023</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-w-cCx76SzxU/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAJe0/RVO3T0EdW1k/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20648582.post-6956398951845839857</id><published>2011-01-06T23:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-30T13:42:04.455-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Skyful of dreams...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This is the New York sky, as seen from right outside my building... A little walk in the morning under this beautiful sky is certain to revive one's well being!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="450" height="375"&gt; &lt;param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fkavsrao%2Fsets%2F72157627631446290%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fkavsrao%2Fsets%2F72157627631446290%2F&amp;set_id=72157627631446290&amp;jump_to="&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=104087"&gt;&lt;/param&gt; &lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=104087" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="offsite=true&amp;lang=en-us&amp;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2Fkavsrao%2Fsets%2F72157627631446290%2Fshow%2F&amp;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2Fkavsrao%2Fsets%2F72157627631446290%2F&amp;set_id=72157627631446290&amp;jump_to=" width="500" height="375"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I simply could not stop myself from running back home, only to to grab my Canon and get a piece of this sky in my hands :-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20648582-6956398951845839857?l=kavstrokes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/feeds/6956398951845839857/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/2011/01/skyful-of-dreams.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20648582/posts/default/6956398951845839857'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20648582/posts/default/6956398951845839857'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/2011/01/skyful-of-dreams.html' title='Skyful of dreams...'/><author><name>Kavita Rao</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/112462064518364960023</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-w-cCx76SzxU/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAJe0/RVO3T0EdW1k/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20648582.post-1294523823383528271</id><published>2011-01-06T18:29:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-12-30T13:40:57.202-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eyes'/><title type='text'>Eyes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;When the eyes start speaking, everything else goes silent...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe align="center" frameborder="0" height="500" scrolling="no" src="http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?group_id=&amp;amp;user_id=35272775@N08&amp;amp;set_id=72157627507237507&amp;amp;text=" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;These are some of my favorite eye-shots! The models in these are my husband and myself :) To shoot myself, I had to use a tripod, and stand in front of a mirror, and peer into the lens from really weird angles.. But that's all okay I guess :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20648582-1294523823383528271?l=kavstrokes.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/feeds/1294523823383528271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/2011/01/eyes.html#comment-form' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20648582/posts/default/1294523823383528271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20648582/posts/default/1294523823383528271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://kavstrokes.blogspot.com/2011/01/eyes.html' title='Eyes'/><author><name>Kavita Rao</name><uri>https://profiles.google.com/112462064518364960023</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh5.googleusercontent.com/-w-cCx76SzxU/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAJe0/RVO3T0EdW1k/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry></feed>
